Emerging Solar Strategies, Part 4: SunEdison and the Next Big Thing

SunEdison wrote the first U.S. power purchase agreement (PPA) in solar in 2004. It built the first U.S. and Canadian utility-scale solar projects and the biggest (72 megawatts) European installation. And, in 2010, its deal with First Reserve was the first solar development investment fund to top $1 billion. SunEdison Distributed Generation General Manager Attila Toth says the next big thing in solar will be distributed generation (DG) . “For us, distributed generation means the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector and the public sector -- everything on the customer side of the meter,” Toth said. It also includes residential rooftops. “Everything that includes dealing with a customer, as opposed to dealing with a utility, is distributed generation.” Wholly owned by MEMC (NYSE:WFR ) since 2008, SunEdison believes, Toth said, “the solar business on the customer side of the ...